From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Scroll preserving point position - other meaning Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:38:59 +0100 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <1232037604.197929@arno.fh-trier.de> References: <21472671.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232041449 1328 80.91.229.12 (15 Jan 2009 17:44:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:44:09 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 15 18:45:19 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LNWHC-0002q9-Qq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:45:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46178 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LNWFw-0008Ty-72 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:43:48 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1232037664 8878 143.93.54.11 (15 Jan 2009 16:41:04 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:41:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081018) In-Reply-To: Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-084-059-099-066.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:166040 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:61363 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:29 AM, volodyan wrote: >> Hi, >> I am using Emacs with X and struggling to do the following. How can I >> preserve point's position while scrolling IN TEXT? I spent hours roaming >> through Internet/searched the forum, but everyone seems to be interested in >> preserving point's position on screen. I want to be able to use scroll bar >> with a mouse or PageUp/Down to look something up and then return, but the >> point insists on staying on screen. > > I think that can't be done. If I remember correctly this was discussed > on Emacs devel a while ago. I think one could write something like a modal scrolling, like in this pseudo elisp. (defun scroll-modal-pre-command-hook () "Pseudocode!" (when (eq this-command 'scroll-bar-command) (save-window-excursion (while (scroll-bar-command-p) (apply 'scroll-command) (read-event))))) I don't know if that's what eveybody has in mind here. -ap